I understand you've mentioned that you haven't seen any issues with the spokes, but my concern remains the same. This device applies significant rotational and lateral force to just one or two spokes at a time. While the spokes may not bend, they can certainly stretch or lose tension, which could throw the wheel out of true. Other than that, seems to a very clever design!
Ive been changing tires by hand for a long time...I'm ready for some ease in the process. Plus, I like the fact I can change out tires for different rides with "Great Ease". I'll be buying this soon. Thanks for the great video!
Jacob looks fit and trained and has difficulty breathing at work. I don't even want to imagine what would happen if I had to work for the first time in my life.
When tIres are made, they are almost never perfectly balanced, and most manufacturers will place a yellow/white dot on the section of the tire where there is least weight. When fitting a tIre, you should line up this yellow/white dot with the valve stem as this is the heaviest point of the wheel.
@@Rabaconda ... This tyre fitting tool is a great piece of kit, shame it's way way over priced, somebody's making a hell of a mark up, ie) profit on these badboyz. I disagree with your advice ... there's no evidence that the valve location is the heaviest part of a wheel ... remove the tyre, then install the wheel (no tyre) in your balancer to find the true heavy spot, this will always be at the 6'oclock position, mark rim with a pen or tape, you'll find it's rarely the valve location, look inside the new tyre, see where the overlap join is in the carcass's construction, this is the true heavy spot, mark it, install tyre with rim mark & tyre mark opposite each other, most of the time these 2 heavy spots will cancel each other out, hence little to no adhesive weights will be required to bring the wheel/tyre combo into balance ... I've worked for Honda for many yrs, fitted hundreds of tyres over the last 40 odd yrs, try it, it really does work better than assuming valve is the heavy point & a manufacturer dot or circle is the lighter spot in a tyre carcass ... Honda have done this for yrs, check out any new Honda, you'll rarely see the manufacturer tyre dot at the valve location, it's mostly 90degrees from the valve.
I have one of these. I have the BMW R1250 GSA and a KTM 500 EXC-F. I remember stuggling to get the Dunlop D606 on my KTM using the tried and true old style tire stand. Those Dunlop D606 tires are sooo stiff! I probably spent an hour trying to get that thing on using an standard tire stand. Oh yeah and I pinched a tube on the rear so I had to take it off an put another tube in it. God dam that sucked. After that experience, I ordered the Rabaconda. It is so much easier changing tires now. I think if you have soft tires, like non-DOT tires for hard enduro, etc then I think you could change tires on an old fashioned tire stand just about as quickly.
As a gs owner we only chance tires to go to the coffee shop... I'm picking up a tool as I switch pack and forth often between trail max, and anakees depending on where I go...
It took me about 2 hours on a No-Mar (I’ve done 2 dozen changes on) to swap a Dunlop Trailmax Mission. That tire is a monster. I own this changer now and did the Tractionator GPS front and rear as easy as he showed in this video.
Glad to see even the pros have to do the rotating circle movement to make sure they're putting the tire on in the right direction :-)
Absolutely!
I understand you've mentioned that you haven't seen any issues with the spokes, but my concern remains the same. This device applies significant rotational and lateral force to just one or two spokes at a time. While the spokes may not bend, they can certainly stretch or lose tension, which could throw the wheel out of true. Other than that, seems to a very clever design!
Bent my hub out of true.
Ive been changing tires by hand for a long time...I'm ready for some ease in the process. Plus, I like the fact I can change out tires for different rides with "Great Ease". I'll be buying this soon. Thanks for the great video!
Awesome design! I just picked up a GSA and this will get a lot of use in my shop
7:40 he made putting the first side of tyre on the wheel look easy! Technique is so important…
I love the cool sound it makes when you’re taking the hub off the spindle 🧐😜👏👏👏❤️
Yes, we like it too. And the sound the ratchet system makes, it's music to our ears
Great tool, but how do you balance the wheels afterwards?
Great device ! but I am also concerned about damage to spokes with amount of force applied ... can you comment to reassure my fears please?
Jacob looks fit and trained and has difficulty breathing at work. I don't even want to imagine what would happen if I had to work for the first time in my life.
My last tyre change was a rear mitas EO7 Dakar tubed.... Nearly lost a couple of fingers 😅 and all confidence in my tools ...
So...instead of using the drop center tools, using a tire iron to keep bead in the center of the rim is sufficient?
It has some advantages. Latest tires I’ve changed I’ve only used the tire iron to push the tire to the drop center. It’s somewhat slimmer
please do a tutorial for DUCATI MULTISTRADA V4 , thanks!
Should that white dot on the tire be directly over the valve stem? Great video and equipment! Thank you.
When tIres are made, they are almost never perfectly balanced, and most manufacturers will place a yellow/white dot on the section of the tire where there is least weight. When fitting a tIre, you should line up this yellow/white dot with the valve stem as this is the heaviest point of the wheel.
@@Rabaconda ... This tyre fitting tool is a great piece of kit, shame it's way way over priced, somebody's making a hell of a mark up, ie) profit on these badboyz.
I disagree with your advice ... there's no evidence that the valve location is the heaviest part of a wheel ... remove the tyre, then install the wheel (no tyre) in your balancer to find the true heavy spot, this will always be at the 6'oclock position, mark rim with a pen or tape, you'll find it's rarely the valve location, look inside the new tyre, see where the overlap join is in the carcass's construction, this is the true heavy spot, mark it, install tyre with rim mark & tyre mark opposite each other, most of the time these 2 heavy spots will cancel each other out, hence little to no adhesive weights will be required to bring the wheel/tyre combo into balance ... I've worked for Honda for many yrs, fitted hundreds of tyres over the last 40 odd yrs, try it, it really does work better than assuming valve is the heavy point & a manufacturer dot or circle is the lighter spot in a tyre carcass ... Honda have done this for yrs, check out any new Honda, you'll rarely see the manufacturer tyre dot at the valve location, it's mostly 90degrees from the valve.
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yellow point of the tire is not anymore at the valve ;-)
Well spotted! Guess you’d have to place it lower to account for its rotation.
Great work!
Thank you!
Glad to see I’m not the only one that doesn’t tie their work boots 😂
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Again with the trap…😂. Still impressive work!
I have one of these. I have the BMW R1250 GSA and a KTM 500 EXC-F. I remember stuggling to get the Dunlop D606 on my KTM using the tried and true old style tire stand. Those Dunlop D606 tires are sooo stiff! I probably spent an hour trying to get that thing on using an standard tire stand. Oh yeah and I pinched a tube on the rear so I had to take it off an put another tube in it. God dam that sucked. After that experience, I ordered the Rabaconda. It is so much easier changing tires now. I think if you have soft tires, like non-DOT tires for hard enduro, etc then I think you could change tires on an old fashioned tire stand just about as quickly.
the average GS owner would be more likely to buy new bike than change his own tyres.
you might be surprised how many GS owners want to change their own tires.
As a gs owner we only chance tires to go to the coffee shop... I'm picking up a tool as I switch pack and forth often between trail max, and anakees depending on where I go...
@@Rabaconda i changed my own! it was a complete pain in the ass haha, the dunlop trailmax missions are no joke, picking up a rabaconda soon...
Přípravek bude stát stejně jako bmw😂😂😂
Those Trailmax Missions are so rigid, they'd be a real struggle to change with normal tools.
Oh yeah, a real challenge!!
It took me about 2 hours on a No-Mar (I’ve done 2 dozen changes on) to swap a Dunlop Trailmax Mission. That tire is a monster. I own this changer now and did the Tractionator GPS front and rear as easy as he showed in this video.
thanks for sharing it with others,@@kalimarus
I just watched a guy do this using nothing but his hands, a tire iron and his center stand to break the bead.
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